Aims of Education for Peace

The overall aim of Education for Peace is to help build a peaceful world. To do so we aim to:

Understand the nature and origins of violence and its effects on both victim and perpetrator.
Create frameworks for achieving peace and peaceful, creative societies.
Sharpen awareness about the existence of unpeaceful relationships between people and within and between nations.
Investigate the causes of conflicts and violence embedded within perceptions, values and attitudes of individuals as well as within social and political structures of society.
Encourage the search for alternatives and possible nonviolent skills.
Equip children and adults with personal conflict resolution skills.
Show people that violence and war are learned and not an intrinsic part of human nature and that it is possible to resolve conflict peacefully.
Create a more peaceful world where all of us may become agents for change. Education for Peace gives us the skills that will assist in achieving peaceful societies.
Correct the limited understanding of peace held by many people that it is the absence, however contrived, of direct violence, of wounding and killing.
Create a better learning environment where conflict and relationships may be explored.

Latest news from PEN members

White Poppies are now available and can be ordered via the PPU website. Lots of Poppy related education resources also available.

We are delighted to welcome the Woodcraft Folk as members of the Peace Education Network